iCloud Private Relay Down for Some Users

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I leave it on all the time.

The most appealing feature is it even encrypt DNS requests leaving Safari, hence my office admin would not know what websites I have been visiting when my phone is connected to the office Wi-Fi.

It also re-routes DNS requests leaving Firefox!

Try turning it off in Network Preferences and see the difference here: https://www.dnsleaktest.com/
I have been using OpenDNS servers but now apparently iCloud Private Relay has taken over.

Interestingly, before it went down I was seeing Cloudflare servers both in Firefox and Safari. Now iCloud Private Relay is routing Firefox's DNS requests via Akamai but Safari's go via Cloudflare ?

 

[msackey]

He said the firefox dont use it. So he tested firefox and safari speeds and didn’t notice differences.

Thank you. It’s just my misreading

 

[kiancheong]

Private Relay was down earlier today and Mail is again affected with "Your network preferences prevent content from being loaded privately." When that happens, all breaks loose and Mail starts downloading remote content from the original servers.

 

[msackey]

Yes, I notice that when Private Relay is down, the iPad and iPhone don't always seem to "recover" well, whereas on the Mac it's fine. By "recover", I mean I lose internet connection and force quitting browser doesn't seem to resolve the problem. On the Mac, it seems more robust; I can continue to work on the internet albeit without the private relay.

 

[MrGimper]

Turned it off day one, massively kills my bandwidth.

Why flag a “disagree” on this? Are you stalking me and believe it’s not killing my bandwidth?

 

[MRU]

Anyone notice massive speed differences between internet speeds when Private Relay is on on vs off.

I get 930mb down with private relay OFF
I get 300-450mb down with private relay ON

Similarly upload speeds half when private relay is ON.

At the moment I am wondering if this downside is worth any potential gain for using it.

 

[metapunk2077fail]

Private Relay doesn't appear to do jack.

Somehow they are already scraping search data from one device and then showing me related content on another device. First device not even logged in to google or anything.

Try this experiment and see what happens within 48 hours.